Asparagus stellatus Baker

Shrublets up to 2.5 m high, evergreen. Rhizome and roots not seen. Stems erect, ribbed, minutely pubescent, pale to dark grey with age. Spines thin, sharp, ±6 mm long, recurved, absent above. Branches bearing numerous branchlets closely beset with rounded cladode fascicles. Cladodes obovoid, with some setae, ±1 mm long, apiculate above, narrowed into a flat disc; together with other cladodes of the fascicle placed on a circular receptacle. Flowers solitary, pendulous, beside a cladode fascicle; tepals ±4 mm long; flower stalk with disc near base. Stamens typical. Ovary with ±10 ovules in each locule; ovoid. Berry not seen.